Pipeline Lead - Technical Artist

We’re looking for a technical artist to join our team to support the day-to-day running of projects. You will have ideally been working either at a game studio or production house as a Technical Artist - Pipeline, or on projects in the TV and Film industry as a Pipeline TD. 

To date, this role has been part of the TA's remit, but as we’ve grown we want to make this a dedicated role in our team. We run game capture, in-engine cinematics, and CG/offline rendered projects; and the ideal candidate will want to get stuck in with all pipelines and look to champion a workflow that allows for consistencies and efficiencies across all our projects, for all our artists. 

What will I be doing?

• Setting up project-based technical infrastructure, including version control, depots, tools, and plugins, onboarding artists

• Discussing blockers with the client’s development team and establish a solution that works within the timelines & scope

• Deploying fixes to artists in a sustainable way

• Building tools to improve our pipelines and workflows across our technical teams 

• Working with our project teams to ensure that projects follow established processes and agreed scope 

• Planning our projects and being involved in project management decisions

• When not working on projects you will be looking at improvements across our systems and toolsets

• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

Languages/experience 

• A degree in computer science, or similar

• 1-2 years experience in an agency/ software development studio environment where you’ve had to deal with a variety of different pipelines and processes

• Solid understanding of VPN & Version Control (including but not limited to: Perforce, SourceTree, SVN, Unity Teams)

• Python & MEL Scripting - Maya - This would be a welcome bonus

• Unreal 4 - C++ 

• Unity C#

Key Skills

• Strong working knowledge of 3D pipelines & game engines 

• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle

• Excellent team working and communication skills

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Good attention to detail

• Calm bedside manner 

• Excellent organisational and time management skills, the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time